<div dir="ltr">Bill's question is good and I have heard it many times. Practice answering that.<div><br></div><div>Related examples:<br><br>Tell me how you would setup and install 100 new servers?</div><div>How do you describe to onsite support staff (smart hands) to move a network cable to another port on the same system?</div><div>At 2am you are trouble shooting an issue from home and you lose connection to the node. What do you check first?</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 1:37 PM Bill Abbott <<a href="mailto:babbott@oarc.rutgers.edu">babbott@oarc.rutgers.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">One of my standard interview questions is to say ok, you start on Monday <br>
and you're placed in charge of a web/db server, tell me what you do your <br>
first week.<br>
<br>
What I want to hear is security, backups, log checking, monitoring, <br>
performance, functionality, etc., but most of all I want to know how <br>
they think and if they can come up with a coherent plan.<br>
<br>
Another version is "A user says the cluster is slow. What do you do?"<br>
<br>
Bill<br>
<br>
On 06/13/2018 02:27 PM, Andrew Latham wrote:<br>
> Such a broad topic. I would assume things like DHCP, TFTP, Networking, <br>
> PXE and IPMI which come to mind. Troubleshooting tools, configuration <br>
> management, version control, monitoring, issue tracking and many other <br>
> processes are at play. I would love to hear any interview questions <br>
> which could cover this array of topics sanely.<br>
> <br>
> Suggested question: Tell me the best hardware horror story?<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 12:08 PM Jonathan Engwall <br>
> <<a href="mailto:engwalljonathanthereal@gmail.com" target="_blank">engwalljonathanthereal@gmail.com</a> <br>
> <mailto:<a href="mailto:engwalljonathanthereal@gmail.com" target="_blank">engwalljonathanthereal@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
> <br>
> John Hearne wrote:<br>
> > Stuart Midgley works for DUG? They are currently<br>
> > recruiting for an HPC manager in London... Interesting...<br>
> <br>
> Recruitment at DUG wants to call me about Low Level HPC. I have at<br>
> least until 6pm.<br>
> I am excited but also terrified. My background is C and now<br>
> JavaScript, mostly online course work and telnet MUDs.<br>
> Any suggestions are very much needed.<br>
> What must a "low level HPC" know on day 1???<br>
> Jonathan Engwall<br>
> <a href="mailto:engwalljonathanthereal@gmail.com" target="_blank">engwalljonathanthereal@gmail.com</a><br>
> <mailto:<a href="mailto:engwalljonathanthereal@gmail.com" target="_blank">engwalljonathanthereal@gmail.com</a>><br>
> <br>
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